Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Ricoh 28mm lens for M6
From: pcb@iac.co.jp (Paul C. Brodek)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 08:34:11 +0900

This lens was prduced by Ricoh in Leica screw mount, not bayonet
mount, in a limited edition of 2,000  silver and 1,000 black lenses.
Most of these stayed in the Japanese domestic market; I've never heard
of them being offered by Ricoh in the US, though I think they may have
been sold in the UK.  In Japan they were priced at
93,000yen/103,000yen  for silver/black kits (inclusding presentation
box and 28mm finder).

Tom Abrahamsson anf Jeremy Kimes own one and have commented about the
lens on list; a few other list members also own the lens.  Erwin Puts
has mentioned it briefly.  Basically it seems to be a fine lense, well
made and nicely compact and light.  It does not outperform the latest
2 versions of the Elmarit-M 28/2.8, but performs as well as the
Minolta Rokkor-M 28/2.8.  An L-M adaptor is needed to use the lens on
an M-series Leica.  They are still available new in Japan, and are
appearing on the used market as well.

Regards,

PB
  =20

On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:28:06 +0100, "James Harper"
<DRJH@btinternet.com> wrote:

>UK Amateur Photographer magazine dated 22 August, 1998 has a test report=
=20
>by its editor on the Ricoh GR1 compact camera which says inter alia: =
"The
>28mm F2.8 GR lens is one of the best wideangle lenses for the 35mm =
format
>ever produced. That it's stuck on a compact does not make it inferior, =
just
>unnoticed."  And also: "...earlier this year Ricoh released the GR1's =
lens
>as a separate unit in Leica M bayonet fitting."


Paul C. Brodek
Kobe, Japan
pcb@iac.co.jp